It's to recieve commands from the mothership.

Zeep glorp my brother 🖖.

For those without context...

Ahoge (アホ毛, アホげ), literally "foolish hair," is a visual cue common to Japanese anime and manga. Consisting of a single cute, often long, lock of hair sticking out from the top of the head, it is most often used to identify foolish, bumbling or carefree characters.

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That could be due to a mutation in sonic hedgehog.

I know that sounds like a joke, but it's not.

Edit: Taking a closer look, that cat definitely has a sonic hedgehog mutation. That's the source of what looks like a split in the nose, plus the eyes being set slightly far apart.

Must get bad reception with such a tiny antenna. Explains why it takes them so long to download the braincell.

Is her nose w i d e ?

Ahoge whisker!

It's for downloading updates from the mothership

Pikmin cat

I love it.

Bideo games

It's like she has ESPN or something.

LoRa cat